Almost immediately, I settled on Bob Books and the Dick and Jane collection (now in reprints!), books I wouldn't have found at, say, the Web site of Books of Wonder, a fancy children's bookstore.
As old, romantic and historic as it is, Edinburgh is a working town that prides itself on being hip, secular, sophisticated and spectacularly prosperous -- real estate prices are among the highest in Europe, and you can't go a block without passing a restaurant, cafe, bookstore, boutique or fancy food outlet.
My literary-minded colleagues, however, would imagine the store as a retreat filled with days of quiet reading and fancy thoughts of opening their own bookstores.
This Tokyo bookstore doesn't need a fancy algorithm to recommend just the right book for every customer.
Seemingly every bookstore now serves double duty as a fancy-notebook store.
You can watch a fancy book trailer for it on YouTube, and some bookstores are planning to stay open until midnight on its release date, Oct. 25.
But a bookstore worker told me she once scored a fancy camel's-hair coat and Prada shoes.
An opening party in honor of the collection will be held Thursday, March 1 at Taschen in Beverly Hills, so get your fancy outfit ready and strut your stuff down to the bookstore.
The camps run by bookstores, which are also in Decatur, Ga., and now in Brooklyn, are not fancy affairs.
Admittedly, the technology isn't ready for prime time, and it may never reach the point where it can print fancy books with faux-leather binding, and the current price is out of reach for most small bookstores.
